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€15.00 - The Mountain Ash in Connemara

If you wish to purchase a copy of The Mountain Ash in Connemara audio CD please contact Joan by email - joanmcbreen@gmail.com

The Mountain Ash in Connemara Selected Poems by Joan McBreen featuring commissioned original music and arrangements by Glen
Austin.

The Mountain Ash in Connemara audio CD will feature the RTÉ Contempo Quartet
performing a selection of original music compositions with arrangements of traditional Irish airs for string
quartet by composer Glen Austin. Joan McBreen's readings of her poetry will be interspersed by this
music.

The original compositions and arrangements were recorded by the RTÉ Contempo Quartet at
Sun Street Studios, Tuam, County Galway, on the 17th, 18th and 19th of February, 2014.

The
Mountain Ash in Connemara audio CD was released at a celebration concert at Listowel Writers' Week, County
Kerry, on Thursday May 29th in the Listowel Arms Hotel. The RTÉ Contempo Quartet premiered some
of the music composed and arranged by composer Glen Austin for The Mountain Ash in Connemara CD at this event.
Throughout this concert Joan McBreen read her poetry which was accompanied by this music. The following concerts will
also take this format.

Music from The Mountain Ash in Connemara will be performed by the RTÉ Contempo Quartet at
the International Yeats Summer School, Sligo on July 31st at 1pm in the Methodist Church.

A third
concert will be performed by the RTÉ Contempo Quartet at Clifden Arts Festival on Tuesday, September 23rd,
2014 at 1pm in The Church of Ireland, Clifden, County Galway.